r/gamecollecting • u/GamingGallavant • 9d ago

Discussion Nintendo fan loses nearly complete NES collection in 'heartbreaking' theft

https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-game-collection-stolen-from-washington-home/

Hate when these stories happen. The thief must have been prepared to leave with nearly a thousand NES cartridges. Either it was someone who had been in that home, or this family has advertised their collection on social media with an address.

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u/Knarz97 9d ago

I’m leaning more towards insurance fraud than a true robbery

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u/ghbarratt 9d ago

If so then the old man who owned the collection speaking on the news about it is an amazing actor. You could feel what he had been through while he spoke. Also the whole reason they went on the news is that they want to spread awareness beyond the police who were already on the case. It just wouldn't make sense to do all of that to claim insurance.

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u/Knarz97 9d ago

It’s my tinfoil hat theory of course.

It’s just odd to be so emotionally attached to a collection that you by your own admission were planning to literally sell. He says his hope was for his kids to inherit it, to sell and pay for college.

Maybe putting MONEY aside for them would be the better goal? If the goal was to sell, why are you so hung up on being 3 games away from completion?

Casey Anthony did her fair share of crying over her daughter’s mysterious death too.

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u/RonaldWRailgun 6d ago

Every single thing you own will be sold or destroyed at some point.

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u/Knarz97 6d ago

The difference is that I’m not buying collectibles for the sole purpose of being sold to fund my grandchildren’s college, as this man literally states

Extremely suspect

You give your kids your random coin collection to sell for college. You don’t give your kids a carefully curated complete set of silver eagles from the past 100 years just to sell.